Archive for the 'Writing/Art' Category

Getting Paid

Posted by Rob on August 18th, 2008

Love Harlan Ellison, been a fan of his for a long time. In case you haven’t been introduced to the man and his works, Harlan is a rather vocal and opinionated writer, mainly of short stories and essays. He’s a champion of the idea that a writer without strong opinions (and the will […]

Fact From Myth, Meaning From Ambivalence

Posted by Rob on August 15th, 2008

In most of Western civilization, we’ve elevated reductionism and ambivalence to the status of state religion. We write off cultural myth as merely fanciful storytelling (or worse, literal truth); reduce vital political debates to the competitive give-and-take of a football game; entertain the idea that formal education is little more than cultural repression; even […]

The Unimportant-Looking Room

Posted by Rob on June 30th, 2007

For those of us to make their livings with the written word, stories such as the J. T. Leroy drama pose a dilemma. On one hand, we understand the creative needs of an artist and how “the system” can prevent them from being met; on the other, citizens in a free society must be […]